CTAAR has added The Online Classroom newsletter from Magna Publications to our subscription, available to all faculty and staff. Current titles now include:

The Online Classroom newsletter

The Teaching Professor newsletter

Magna Commons video library

20-Minute Mentor Commons video library

All of the titles offer material on a variety of topics dealing with teaching, pedagogy, and university administration.

To access the Magna Publication titles, please use this link (requires NetID login via Sakai/CAS. Your name and email will be shared with Magna in lieue of registration on their site):Magna Publications for Rutgers University

Rutgers CTAAR and the Ph.D. in Higher Education program invite you to a talk on the future of Higher Education, on March 6th at 2:00 p.m.

Matt Reed, Ph.D. is an alumnus of the graduate program in Political Science, Rutgers New Brunswick and is the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He is well known for his Inside Higher Education blog Confessions of a Community College Dean, in which, as Matt puts it, "A veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care."

The Future of Higher Ed: Inequality, Mobility, Democracy and Workforce Development - the Community College Sector

Friday, March 6, 2015 from 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Pane Room Alexander Library

Seating for this talk is limited, so please register and please come to the talk.

To view the videos, please click the link to log in, and select "Rutgers University" from the institution list. The videos require either Adobe Flash or Google Chrome (Google Chrome includes a more secure version of Flash and is recommended).

"Copyright Issues for Classroom and Online Teaching at Rutgers: A Workshop for Rutgers New Brunswick Instructors"

Presented by Janice Pilch, Rutgers Libraries

The presentation will cover the basics of copyright law including fair use, contract law as it applies to digital resources, use of copyrighted works in classroom teaching and in online and hybrid courses, current copyright policies and practices at Rutgers, the copyright landscape in higher education, and open access teaching content. Topics include educational use of copyrighted works in all formats; distributing works through course management systems; posting works to faculty websites or online; use of works in e-reserve systems; copyright for student projects; other student uses of copyrighted material; showing films and streaming in the classroom and on campus; and videotaping in the classroom.

Janice T. Pilch is Copyright and Licensing Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries. Working closely with the Office of Vice President and General Counsel, Janice advises the Libraries and members of the university community about issues related to the works they create and appropriate use of works created by others and educates faculty, staff, and students about copyright, licensing, and other intellectual property issues through workshops, websites, and consultations.

Magna Commons is a large library of recorded "webinars" focusing on a variety of topics centered on teaching, learning, and academic administration and The Teaching Professor is a weekly newsletter that covers many of the same topics. CTAAR has made these available to the Rutgers community for a few years, however the login and registration process was somewhat difficult.

We have switched to a new, easier login method to access the Magna Commons video library. This also provides access to The Teaching Professor newsletter.

To access the Magna Commons and The Teaching Professor newsletter, first log in to Rutgers Sakai using your Rutgers NetID and this link below:

CTAAR is subscribing to the semester-long series of 20 minute teaching mentor webinars.
A new seminar will be available every week from August 27 through the week of December 10, 2012.
Sign up here - every Friday we will send you access information for the upcoming session.
Each program can be accessed anytime, anywhere during the week that it is available. The programs are each available for one week only, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time on the Monday of each week.
If you are unable to view a program in a week when it was offered and would like to see it, please contact monica.devanas@ctaar.rutgers.edu.
There is also exclusive access to a LinkedIn discussion group to promote collaboration and consultation among institutions. Fall 2012 Schedule.pdf

TurnItIn.com has created an interesting and informative illustration of different types of plagiarism. It places plagiarism into 10 categories ranging from outright "cloning" to less obvious errors, with clear indicators of the frequency and seriousness of each type of offense.

The CTAAR is very pleased to provide you with webinars from Magna Publishers, on the Magna Commons website. There are over one hundred webinars on many topics regarding teaching, learning, and higher education administration. Each one is an hour or more, covering the topic in great depth.